russian empire and its successors are really good at picking at cadavers they rolled up the Ottomans when they were already the Sick Man of Europe they rolle

russian empire and its successors are really good at picking at cadavers they rolled up the Ottomans when they were already the Sick Man of Europe they rolled up Habsburgs after the empire was bled in Izonzo and elsewhere they rolled up Bukhara and Samarkand when those were rotten, same as Caucasus They had many very close calls and their demographics + distances saved them But they no longer have favorable demographics and distances are much much shorter nowdays